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of twisted metal, 40 year old virgins helping friends, and other stories

of twisted metal,
40 year old virgins,
helping friends,

and other stories.

twisted metal

kwong requested this a while ago.

sailing [sā-ling] obsession. the fine art of getting really wet, really cold, going nowhere really fast, while spending really large amounts of money.

on sunday, marcus and i proved that final phrase true.

in the strong wind, we both took the trouble to break our top masts.

[location:brain]
{password}
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<do: be patient when capsized, swing bow into wind
do not: right the boat through one full turn in shallow water>

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output>

<more practise; hours in the gym>

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[location:brain/]

i'm hoping that uncle tony will be able to lend me a mast by the weekend. oh, and tomorrow we're getting the school 420s (i think).

it's also interesting that this is the 2nd time this sail has been torn in this fashion.

. . .

40 year old virgins



first it was bbq over the weekend. then paintball on sunday. the list goes on, 40 year old virgin on monday, lan on tuesday, flightplan today, bbq again this weekend, not on sat but on sunday (maurice's dad's bday).

no, that's not a list of outings i've had since the exams. it's a list of planned outings that came to nought.

e.g. monday i had a poorly timed dental appointment, today no flightplan (...).

our class kinda sux at planning outings, haha. even after two years still the same...

. . .

acs sailing/ helping friends

we had sailing meeting on tuesday, discussed things like criteria for next year's intake of sailors, captains, camps, etc.

imo, i dun really care about the school sailing programs. cuz i hardly train with the school anyway, i find that some of the pple attitudes are not good for training, much better with the squad. the worst thing is this rivalries with other schools like ri and vj, which is just terrible, especially as i'm such gd friends with so many of them. it just feels wrong la, to advertise school spirit, values, bonding etc and thus shun the others. all this talk about trying to get the best sailors to come to our school, bla bla bla.

and the interschools are always so shit anyway. without fail.

sailing should be public. sailing should be for everyone to enjoy and learn together. not to stick knives in each other's backs.

and my dear captain might just scold me for that.

but hear my second thought!

ac sailors are good for one thing - soccer. ironic but true. thus we go to part 2 of this story. after the meeting about 8 of us went to play soccer. even though greg had tuition at 530, he sportingly played with us till about 510, after which we both rushed home in a cab.

on the cab, he called home and realised that the teacher was already there. i exchanged my clean sch shirt with his muddied one in the hope that he won't be scolded too badly. he reached home abt 550.

i learnt today that his mom wasn't home, so not much of a scolding. close one there.

. . .

relief/ before the tension

we were supposed to receive our results at 920. so ben chan, jinyan, kwong and i went to "enjoy our final freedom" before that and go and play soccer. not that i felt any doom, but they seemed to, so i just followed lorh.

we had some fun on the muddy back field (haven't played there since sec 2), but when we reached class at 910 the two ladies were already in class. so we got scolded a bit la.

i'm ok with my results. highlights would be 81 and 79% for c. and a. maths respectively. oh, and i mentioned how i diligently studied geog? i got 66 haha... sorry la tim chan and yinghao - write so much still fail.

science papers weren't so good la, but expected.

so eventually my combo should turn out like this:
hl - math, chem, econs/geog/b&m
sl - la, mt, phy

. . .

iba

i'll be at "john 3:16 photo supplies", "109 bridge rd #03-37(179079)" for work attachment with paul yong. so perhaps over the next two weeks someone might come down and visit me? give me some business! haha. cool attachment la. kwong and hans got their own with some architecture company.

. . .

not a lot of people seem too be able to go australia. cai weiguo told me no money, so sad. sorry dude!

installing fifa 06. pple say it sucks. heck, i need a new game.

gd luck to all u pple taking 'o's. and whatever other exams also lah.

loooong poooost.

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